Alpha, your verbal and graphical descriptions and summaries of what's known about water and land use and living land covers like urban gardens, trees, and forests; agricultural practices; prairies, wetlands, and forests; drought and floods and fire; and the earth's hydrological cycles at local, regional and planetary levels--on the functioning of the biosphere (the living surface of earth)-- are such important resources for anyone who wants to act as an individual or in collaboration with others at local, regional, bioregional levels. THANK YOU.
A great resource, which I am sharing far and wide.
I would just like to caution this community about the fad/craze of slowing water - as per Peter Andrews in Australia. In most cases slowing the water in a stream is too late: the water needs to be caught WHERE IT LANDS throughout the catchment. It certainly needs to be caught in such a way as to eliminate ALL soil erosion. If your streams run clear all year round, by all means slow the flow (it makes for nice photos), but, if your stream ever runs dirty brown, move up into the surrounding countryside and catch/slow the water there. Bruce Danckwerts CHOMA, Zambia
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Alpha, your verbal and graphical descriptions and summaries of what's known about water and land use and living land covers like urban gardens, trees, and forests; agricultural practices; prairies, wetlands, and forests; drought and floods and fire; and the earth's hydrological cycles at local, regional and planetary levels--on the functioning of the biosphere (the living surface of earth)-- are such important resources for anyone who wants to act as an individual or in collaboration with others at local, regional, bioregional levels. THANK YOU.
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Too much woowo ---> Too little science.
A great resource, which I am sharing far and wide.
I would just like to caution this community about the fad/craze of slowing water - as per Peter Andrews in Australia. In most cases slowing the water in a stream is too late: the water needs to be caught WHERE IT LANDS throughout the catchment. It certainly needs to be caught in such a way as to eliminate ALL soil erosion. If your streams run clear all year round, by all means slow the flow (it makes for nice photos), but, if your stream ever runs dirty brown, move up into the surrounding countryside and catch/slow the water there. Bruce Danckwerts CHOMA, Zambia